Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says
Man accidentally shot child while officiating wedding near Lincoln, deputy says
Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding's officiant, fired a gun to get everyone's attention.
A Texas man accidentally shot a child while officiating a wedding in Lancaster County on Saturday, the sheriff’s office says.
Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said deputies were sent to a wedding at Hillside Events near Denton on a report of a gunshot wound.
Deputies learned that 62-year-old Michael Gardner, the wedding’s officiant, fired a gun to get everyone’s attention.
“He was going to fire in the air, and as he did that, it slipped and went off,” Houchin said.
The gun was loaded with a blank that Gardner made with gunpowder and glue.
Houchin said Gardner accidentally shot a child in the shoulder. They were taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Also, it was a blank, so the kid doesn't have a bullet hole. None of this excuses wielding a firearm irresponsibly in a crowd of people, and I'll take "Trigger discipline" for $200, Alex. Just wanted to bring to the fore that the kid will be okay.
The only reason his grandkid is still alive is because he wasn't QUITE stupid enough to put live rounds in his 'attention getter'. What a moron.
I've seen a guy shoot his daughter in the leg at a public outdoor range because he cleared a misfire in his handgun incorrectly. She lived, but goddamn. It only takes a second of inattention to kill someone and it happens all the time. These people do not treat firearms with respect. It's not a fucking noisemaker or a penis replacement. It kills, instantly.
If only there has been a good officiant with a gun!
Had the child been armed, this tragedy would have never occurred. 'Murica!
Fucking backward degenerates.
Makes me think of that scene from the Office when Dwight randomly fires a gun in the air at the start of the rabies awareness race. First time I saw that, I thought, "they sure do know how to exaggerate American culture" but alas, here we are.
If there is anyone here who has cause to think that I should not have a gun, speak now or forever...BANG.....oh shit, sorry kid!
This country is overloaded with people that are just bat shit crazy. 
This is the world where every idiot has the right to carry a gun.
He just had to take out the Holy Handgun.
There’s something very wrong with this story. Yes, a Texas pastor shot a child during a wedding, but why was it being held on a Saturday? Are we just going to accept weddings to be held on any day, wily nilly, instead of on a proper Sunday?
I propose that Texas mandate proper wedding laws, including mandatory background checks and waiting periods, so that these children shot at weddings will only be shot on Sunday, the way god intended.
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It wouldn’t have happened if everyone present had been armed with an AK-47 and a bazooka.
Well a wedding is definitely a place where people get attacked regularly so might as well bring a gun thought nobody ever.
It was the bride. She started crying, so he shot her.